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they will survive the next war. >> warner: if you've got enough lead time. >> that's true. >> warner: ensuring enough lead time is the job of israel's intelligence community. >> it would be hard to describe the extent of sources, manpower, money that was poured into israeli attempts to understand what is happening in syria. >> warner: ronen bergman is military and intelligence correspondent for israel's largest daily newspaper, "yedioth ahronoth." he says israel has been spying intently on the syrian regime of bashar al-assad-- and his father hafez before him-- for decades. >> in fact, it led to the belief, president assad's belief, that there is no communication in syria-- you name it, s.m.s., telex, g.s.m., e-mail, regular phone, cellular phone-- that is not bugged by israel signal intelligence unit. every time mustafa called muhammad, moshe was listening. >> warner: now, he says, that surveillance effort has intensified further still, as israel works to head off any transfer. what do israeli's fear the most abou >> if israel is convinced that syria is supplying hezbollah with chemi
they will survive the next war. >> warner: if you've got enough lead time. >> that's true. >> warner: ensuring enough lead time is the job of israel's intelligence community. >> it would be hard to describe the extent of sources, manpower, money that was poured into israeli attempts to understand what is happening in syria. >> warner: ronen bergman is military and intelligence correspondent for israel's largest daily newspaper, "yedioth ahronoth." he says...
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they will survive the next war. >> warner: if you've got enough lead time. >> that's true. >> warner: ensuring enough lead time is the job of israel's intelligence community. >> it would be hard to describe the extent of sources, manpower, money that was poured into israeli attempts to understand what is happening in syria. >> warner: ronen bergman is military and intelligence correspondent for israel's largest daily newspaper, "yedioth ahronoth." he says israel has been spying intently on the syrian regime of bashar al-assad-- and his father hafez before him-- for decades. >> in fact, it led to the belief, president assad's belief, that there is no communication in syria-- you name it, s.m.s., telex, g.s.m., e-mail, regular phone, cellular phone-- that is not bugged by israel signal intelligence unit. every time mustafa called muhammad, moshe was listening. >> warner: now, he says, that surveillance effort has intensified further still, as israel works to head off any transfer. what do israeli's fear the most about chemical weapons? >> if israel is convinced that syria is supplying h
they will survive the next war. >> warner: if you've got enough lead time. >> that's true. >> warner: ensuring enough lead time is the job of israel's intelligence community. >> it would be hard to describe the extent of sources, manpower, money that was poured into israeli attempts to understand what is happening in syria. >> warner: ronen bergman is military and intelligence correspondent for israel's largest daily newspaper, "yedioth ahronoth." he says...
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margaret warner has the story. >> warner: ten of the country's major banks have agreed to pay $8.5 billion to settle claims that they wrongfully foreclosed on homeowners during the height of the housing crisis. the companies include giants jp moan, bank of america, and wells fargo. it stems from the way they handled some millions of foreclosures during 2009 and 2010. more than $3 billion of the settlement will go in direct payments to borrowers foreclosed on during those years. another five billion is earmarked for other assistance to homeowners who are struggling now. in another settlement stemming from the housing crisis, bank of america today agreed to pay fannie mae $11 billion. fomore, i am joineby t people who track the housing industry closely from different lenses. guy cecala is publisher of "inside mortgage finance," a housing industry research publication. and diane thompson of the national consumer law center. welcome to you both. diane thompson, beginning with you, remind us first of the sorts of abuses that gave rise to this settlement. >> fundamentally what we're talking abou
margaret warner has the story. >> warner: ten of the country's major banks have agreed to pay $8.5 billion to settle claims that they wrongfully foreclosed on homeowners during the height of the housing crisis. the companies include giants jp moan, bank of america, and wells fargo. it stems from the way they handled some millions of foreclosures during 2009 and 2010. more than $3 billion of the settlement will go in direct payments to borrowers foreclosed on during those years. another...
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margaret warner has more. >> warner: it was june of 2009 when army general stanley mcchrystal reached what turned out to be the pnacle of his career-- command of u.s. and coalition forces in afghanistan. >> we must rededicate ourselves to the afghan people and help them build a government and a future for their country that they can be proud of. >> warner: mcchrystal had already made his mark as leader of the u.s. joint special operations command, which targeted, captured and killed hundreds thousands of suspected terrorists in iraq. and, he oversaw the hunt for abu masab al-zarqawi, the leader of al qaeda in iraq who eventually died in a 2006 air strike. in afghanistan, mcchrystal was in charge of a broader strategy of counter-insurgency, using military and civilian means to try to reverse the taliban's momentum. a major test came with an offensive to retake and hold marjah, in helmand province, in early 2010. militarily, it looked like a success. but by may, he faced questions about how well it was going when it came to helping establish a competent, honest local government. >> does
margaret warner has more. >> warner: it was june of 2009 when army general stanley mcchrystal reached what turned out to be the pnacle of his career-- command of u.s. and coalition forces in afghanistan. >> we must rededicate ourselves to the afghan people and help them build a government and a future for their country that they can be proud of. >> warner: mcchrystal had already made his mark as leader of the u.s. joint special operations command, which targeted, captured and...
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and so those are the kind of discussions happening here. >> warner: what happens next? >> what happened today it was police filed charges to the court. the court willeview them and then there will be an actual court trial that will start and this will be a -- we're under the impression the judge may be a woman who has been pretty active before on crimes against women so that might make a very interesting situation. >> warner: heather timmons of the "new york times" in new delhi, thank you. >> thank you so much. >> brown: now, the smelly depths of our aging infrastructure. our intrepid "newshour" science correspondent miles o'brien takes a deep dive into some very murky waters. >> reporter: this is the entire map of the sewer system? >> reporter: i am suiting up for a stomach turning trek beneath the streets of detroit. rappelling into a repelling place-- a huge sewer line called the detroit river interceptor. in short order, i am knee deep in that which rhymes with it. you sure wouldn't want to drop anything valuable in here. woah! glasses. bye bye bifocals, right? watc
and so those are the kind of discussions happening here. >> warner: what happens next? >> what happened today it was police filed charges to the court. the court willeview them and then there will be an actual court trial that will start and this will be a -- we're under the impression the judge may be a woman who has been pretty active before on crimes against women so that might make a very interesting situation. >> warner: heather timmons of the "new york times"...
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margaret warner sat down with the authors a few days ago. . >> warner: if barack obama's 2008 k578 pain road on on a message of hope and change this year's campaign against mitt romney was pore like a long slog. now less than six weeks after the election, more than a month before inauguration, two journalists at "politico" hav published an ebook about the campaign focusing especially on the final 34 days. the end of the line, available only on-line is the last in their series of four ebooks on the 2012 contest. the authors are senior reporters jonathan martin and glenn thrush and they join me now. congratulation, gentlemen, on your book. >> thank you very much for having us. >> warner: let's just set the context for a minute. if you go back to say mid 2011, the conventional wisdom was president obama would have a very hard time given how bad the economy was, given how high unemployment was. what was your conclusion based on this reporting, about whether he and his campaign won this year, won this campaign or whether mitt romney's team lost it. >> i must dodge your question, but we think
margaret warner sat down with the authors a few days ago. . >> warner: if barack obama's 2008 k578 pain road on on a message of hope and change this year's campaign against mitt romney was pore like a long slog. now less than six weeks after the election, more than a month before inauguration, two journalists at "politico" hav published an ebook about the campaign focusing especially on the final 34 days. the end of the line, available only on-line is the last in their series of...
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margaret warner has the story. >> warner: boeing began delivering its sophisticated new 787 dreamliner jet to much fanfare 14 months ago after years of production delays. now, a series of recent incidents has raised concerns about the 50 planes in the air, so much so that, today, the head of the federal aviation administration, michael huerta, announced a comprehensive review. >> the focus is on the design, production, and manufacture of the airplane. we're focusing on the electrical systems as the highest level of priority. our focus is on what the data tells us and what we identify as potential issues there. and based on what we learn, we will take whatever appropriate action is necessary. >> warner: last month, a united airlines 787 from houston to newark was diverted to new orleans after one of its six electrical generators failed mid-flight. on monday, a battery fire ignited in an empty japan airlines dreamliner at boston's logan international airport. suspicion fell on its high- capacity rechargeable lithium ion batteries containing flammable liquid. and the very next day... >> t
margaret warner has the story. >> warner: boeing began delivering its sophisticated new 787 dreamliner jet to much fanfare 14 months ago after years of production delays. now, a series of recent incidents has raised concerns about the 50 planes in the air, so much so that, today, the head of the federal aviation administration, michael huerta, announced a comprehensive review. >> the focus is on the design, production, and manufacture of the airplane. we're focusing on the...
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but as margaret warner reports, his next government could look quite different from his last. >> warner: the prime minister's victory came as no surprise as the leader had a significant lead the polls heading into the election. whatever governing coalition he tries to put together it's sure to include new faces and new agendas that will influence the country. one of those naftali bennett, a high-tech millionaire and former leader who remodeled and old religious and nationalist party for the 21st century, calling it the jewish home. he was out early at a polling station in tel aviv. >> i think we're starting something new in israel. hey! we're trying to unite all the various tribes in israel, the secular, the religious, the ultrareligious, the jews, the arabs, everyone together to unite israel and do something good for this nation >> warner: his comments were inclusive. bennett's platform has a hard edge. the time for negotiating with the palestinians is over, he says. just annex parts of the west bank. the campaign has drawn an enthusiastic following. >> the fresh face and the als also.
but as margaret warner reports, his next government could look quite different from his last. >> warner: the prime minister's victory came as no surprise as the leader had a significant lead the polls heading into the election. whatever governing coalition he tries to put together it's sure to include new faces and new agendas that will influence the country. one of those naftali bennett, a high-tech millionaire and former leader who remodeled and old religious and nationalist party for...
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and so those are the kind of discussions happening here. >> warner: what happens next? >> what happened today it was police filed charges to the court. the court will review them and then there will be an actual court trial that will start and this will be a -- we're under the impression the judge may be a woman who has been pretty active before on crimes against women so that might make a very interesting situation. >> warner: heather timmons of the "new york times" in new delhi, thank you. >> thank you so much. >> brown: now, the smelly depths of our aging infrastructure. our intrepid "newshour" science correspondent miles o'brien takes a deep dive into some very murky waters. >> reporter: this is the entire map of the sewer system? >> reporter: i am suiting up for a stomach turning trek beneath the streets of detroit. rappelling into a repelling place-- a huge sewer line called the detroit river interceptor. in short order, i am knee deep in that which rhymes with it. you sure wouldn't want to drop anything valuable in here. woah! glasses. bye bye bifocals, right? wa
and so those are the kind of discussions happening here. >> warner: what happens next? >> what happened today it was police filed charges to the court. the court will review them and then there will be an actual court trial that will start and this will be a -- we're under the impression the judge may be a woman who has been pretty active before on crimes against women so that might make a very interesting situation. >> warner: heather timmons of the "new york times"...
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delhi. >> warner: heather timmons, thank you for joining us. what can you tell us about the suspects in this case? >> right now there's not a whole lot of information available about the suspects. there are two brothers, they were six friends that hung out together, at least four of them lived in the same neighborhood. one of them is from be haar. one is being tried as a juvenile although that is a matter of some debate. i believe he is going to be -- his actual bone density is going to be tested to see whether he's 17 or 18 and can be tried as an adult. one was a fruit seller and one of them was a cleaner. i mean, they were all -- i believe they were all from outside of delhi doing maybe not odd jobs but not full-time career professional jobs around the city. >> warner: what's emerged about the police's theory of the case. for example, on whether this was an opportunistic crime or pre-pland? >> well, if you look at the charges that were filed, they are being accused of basically pre-planning the crime. the charge includes something called cons
delhi. >> warner: heather timmons, thank you for joining us. what can you tell us about the suspects in this case? >> right now there's not a whole lot of information available about the suspects. there are two brothers, they were six friends that hung out together, at least four of them lived in the same neighborhood. one of them is from be haar. one is being tried as a juvenile although that is a matter of some debate. i believe he is going to be -- his actual bone density is...
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margaret warner has the story. warner: aaron swartz, found dead friday of an apparent suicide at the age of 26, was a prodigy of the digital age. at 14, the programmer helped develop r.s.s., a popular system to subscribe to breaking content on the web. he went on to help develop the social news sharing sight reddit. and he crusaded to make data stored in databases more available to the public. that cause led to his arrest in 2011 for hacking into a scholarly database known as j-store through the m.i.t. network. j.-store or kiefdz and distributes academic articles to subscribers. swartz surreptitiously downloaded nearly 5 million of them. he was to be tried this spring on 13 federal felony accounts which carried hefty fines and prison time. swartz who had battled depression hanged himself. for more about him and the reaction to his death we turn to kevin paulson the senior editor at wired magazine charged with hacking himself some 25 years ago, he knew swartz personally. thank you for being with us. tell us first ab
margaret warner has the story. warner: aaron swartz, found dead friday of an apparent suicide at the age of 26, was a prodigy of the digital age. at 14, the programmer helped develop r.s.s., a popular system to subscribe to breaking content on the web. he went on to help develop the social news sharing sight reddit. and he crusaded to make data stored in databases more available to the public. that cause led to his arrest in 2011 for hacking into a scholarly database known as j-store through...
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margaret warner has the story. >> warner: at the root of the 2008 credit and housing bust were risky, even reckless mortgages made to customers who couldn't afford them. today the new consumer financial protection bureau issued regulations spelling out how lenders must ensure borrowers can repay their loans. banks that follow the criteria would be protected from most lawsuits. to meet the standard of a qualified mortgage, a bank would have to verify the borrower's income, employment and total debt, which could not be more than 43% of his or her income. those criteria prohibit subprime loans, teaser low-rate mortgages with balloon payments later, interest-only mortgages and fees of more than 3% richard cordray is the director of the agency and he joins me now. mr. cordray, welcome. thank yofo jinng u >> my pleasure. >> now banks and mortgage lenders have already very much tightened their lending standards. why are such specific regulations needed now? >> if you go back and remember how we came upon the financial crisis, it happened because of tremendous amounts of reckless lending in t
margaret warner has the story. >> warner: at the root of the 2008 credit and housing bust were risky, even reckless mortgages made to customers who couldn't afford them. today the new consumer financial protection bureau issued regulations spelling out how lenders must ensure borrowers can repay their loans. banks that follow the criteria would be protected from most lawsuits. to meet the standard of a qualified mortgage, a bank would have to verify the borrower's income, employment and...
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margaret warner has the story. >> warner: at the root of the 2008 credit and housing bust were risky, even reckless mortgages made to customers who couldn't afford them. today the new consumer financial protection bureau issued regulations spelling out how lenders must ensure borrowers can repay their loans. banks that follow the criteria would be protected from most lawsuits. to meet the standard of a qualified mortgage, a bank would have to verify the borrower's income, employment and total debt, which could not be more than 43% of his or her income. those criteria prohibit subprime loans, teaser low-rate mortgages with balloon payments later interest-only mortgages and fees of more than 3% richard cordray is the director of the agency and he joins me now. mr. cordray, welcome. thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> now banks and mortgage lenders have already very much tightened their lending standards. why are such specific regulations needed now? >> if you go back and remember how we came upon the financial crisis, it happened because of tremendous amounts of reckless lendin
margaret warner has the story. >> warner: at the root of the 2008 credit and housing bust were risky, even reckless mortgages made to customers who couldn't afford them. today the new consumer financial protection bureau issued regulations spelling out how lenders must ensure borrowers can repay their loans. banks that follow the criteria would be protected from most lawsuits. to meet the standard of a qualified mortgage, a bank would have to verify the borrower's income, employment and...
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everything that happened with time warner and got together a year ago and partnered up on this and wouldn't it be great if we got two major media organizations together, one traditional media which has a a lot of strength in eaching people via tv and one reaching people socially and if you could gather these together imagine what we can do? and so i think you called sizzle real. it was a sizzling experience to be in a high school in hare land and felt like a football pep rally but it was about bullying and they all took the pledge to stop it when they see it and amazing experience and tip of the hat to time warner to really understanding the issue and putting the weight of the media empire behind it to reach people, and second of all understanding how you sort -- there is the bully and there is the person being bullied but what if we got the 99% of other people inspired to take action? what kind of culture can we create? and that is the vant age point that facebook comes at it with. so i wanted to share -- >> [inaudible] >> no. there's a slide before this. okay. this is one slide. it says "
everything that happened with time warner and got together a year ago and partnered up on this and wouldn't it be great if we got two major media organizations together, one traditional media which has a a lot of strength in eaching people via tv and one reaching people socially and if you could gather these together imagine what we can do? and so i think you called sizzle real. it was a sizzling experience to be in a high school in hare land and felt like a football pep rally but it was about...
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warner and listed in the u.s. navy to fight in world war ii. that was the start of his great career in public service, and john, i am proud to be here by your side. mr. chairman, i spent a lot of time sitting in your seat, and congratulations on not having to do that today -- >> i don't know how long it will last, but thanks for pointing it out. >> you and senator mccain have effectively gutted this committee in its important role as a compel -- guided this committee in its important role as an compelling voice for defense did you have managed to pass opposition bills even during contentious times -- authorization bills even during contentious times. thank you both for your dedicated service to our nation. i am confident that you and senator inhofe will continue this tradition, and that senator mccain will still be a very, very valuable member and a voice on this committee. i believe our nation is fortunate to have a nominee for secretary of defense with the character and the experience and courage and leadership
warner and listed in the u.s. navy to fight in world war ii. that was the start of his great career in public service, and john, i am proud to be here by your side. mr. chairman, i spent a lot of time sitting in your seat, and congratulations on not having to do that today -- >> i don't know how long it will last, but thanks for pointing it out. >> you and senator mccain have effectively gutted this committee in its important role as a compel -- guided this committee in its...
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content remains the king and as time warner found out they report time warner cable had to report depressed revenues and depressed profits because of some purchases and content namely sports that they made. they bought the rights to the la lakers and la dodgers for an aggregate of something close to $10 billion over the next five years. >> tom: you got those distributors having to pay some hefty dollars for the content to be able to put it through those pipes be it either internet, broadband or cable watch. are the cable companies doing right when it comes to distribution, are they doing anything wrong? >> well, they have been particularly time warner cable but comcast and the other major cable msoes are committed to what they call ott, over the top television, getting out to multiple screens. the problem that they have is that they're battling amazon and google and sony and apple all of whom have different solutions that don't involve cable or the cable subscription fees to offer over the top television on any kind of screen, whether it's a smart phone, a tablet or whatever. >> and you're
content remains the king and as time warner found out they report time warner cable had to report depressed revenues and depressed profits because of some purchases and content namely sports that they made. they bought the rights to the la lakers and la dodgers for an aggregate of something close to $10 billion over the next five years. >> tom: you got those distributors having to pay some hefty dollars for the content to be able to put it through those pipes be it either internet,...
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margaret warner is in jerusalem. i spoke with her a short time ago. >> so margaret, a few days after the election what kind of government seems to be taking shape? >> jeff, i'm told that bebenetanyahu is trying to put together a very broad coalition, not relying just on the trawl religious and ultra conservative and settler movement crowd that is in his current government. so he is working with that surprise second place finisher to try to put together a very big coalition as well. a lot more votes than they really need. would if the people they're talking about join the government really span a range of viewpoints on everything from how to improve economic conditions for the middle class to say restarting peace talks with the principles. but it will take-- it could take a month to actually firm up. >> tell us a little bit about that surprise second place finisher because it really was a surprise, did get inonn on the leadup. >> warner: it really was, he is 49 years-year-old. it was only a year ago this month that he
margaret warner is in jerusalem. i spoke with her a short time ago. >> so margaret, a few days after the election what kind of government seems to be taking shape? >> jeff, i'm told that bebenetanyahu is trying to put together a very broad coalition, not relying just on the trawl religious and ultra conservative and settler movement crowd that is in his current government. so he is working with that surprise second place finisher to try to put together a very big coalition as well....